The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.